Making a POST with requests

- [Instructor] The last portion of my script…uses the Requests library…to make a POST request to the…Google Map's geolocation API.…It's important not to confuse…the Requests library with Python's Request module.…Although they have similar names,…and both deal with HTTP requests…they are very different modules.…Requests, with an s,…is an external package…that you'll need to install using Pip.…

Request, on the other hand,…is part of the Python standard library's urllib package.…Requests provides a ton of capability,…and is really easy to use…whereas Request only provides…basic HTTP request functionality.…My rule of thumb is that if I can…accomplish something easily using…a module from the standard library then I use that…because the user should already have it.…However, the basic Request module…does not support POST requests,…and that's why I needed to upgrade…to the robust Requests module for this solution.…

I make a call to the requests.post function…on line 33 of my script…passing in the concatenated API URL, and key…